Autocycle No.2

N 12

Introduced in 1906. Discontinued in 1919. This updated version of Autocycle appears to depict the same motorized tricycle as its predecessor, Autocycle No. 1.

Not one of the most interesting Bicycle back designs, but quite rare.  Mrs. Robinson originally listed this deck as being produced in red and blue only, but I have a copy of her Bicycle card booklet with notations in her own hand correcting the listing to include brown and green issues.  I have a few decks in red, and one recently acquired blue deck (2021) from the United Kingdom.  I had never seen even a single card in green until Steve Bowling shared scans of his complete green deck.  The box is pictured below and on the US8c page.

The blue Autocycle No. 2 deck that I acquired is interesting in that it has a standard Bicycle “Seconds” tuck case which is housed in a UK-style sleeve box.  The combination of tuck case and sleeve box is unusual. In my experience, most UK Bicycle decks came in sleeve boxes only.  The Autocycle sleeve box has a paste-down card on the reverse, and the obverse indicates that the cards are “Bicycle Grade,” and includes the USPCC promotional motto, “When you hold BICYCLE CARDS you hold GOOD CARDS.”  I’ll post a picture of the deck and boxes here soon.